There are certain occasions when tradition is something to fight for...but in those moments it is hard to find something new. We try to hold on to the magic that worked before. We want a sense of deep roots even when the dirt is shallow and the growth is young. This is when creativity can help. And Pinterest doesn't hurt either.
This is our second annual camping trip to the same place with a request for the SAME site because it is simply perfect. I can't tell you the letter and number for fear that the world will learn of it. Same tent and sleeping bags. Same special guest and goodies. But this time instead of regular old s'mores we tried something new. You split a perfectly ripe banana down the middle and stuff chocolate and marshmallows down into it and toast over the open fire. You get a luscious dessert that can be eaten right out of the peel.
Extra new thing alert:
There is a store that is passed each time we venture to Knoebel's. Each time I have seen the name of it and cringed...sometimes I even rant silently. Ok, sometimes not so silently. The name of this sweet little farm store shares the name of a not so sweet woman who crushed me on a daily basis while student teaching some twenty years ago. Each time I go by I think of her. I remembered a passage about "putting the woman down" and how much I lecture others on this thinking. Why am I allowing something that happened half of my life ago to hinder me so? Because that's what people do when they are stuck. This time we stopped. We were rewarded....with fresh peaches, delicious tomatoes (that sat out like a box of candy they were so sweet) and a small container of gummy peaches. AND the pooch got a fresh bone that kept her quite happy by the fire. The store was wonderful and I had been missing it all of this time because of old wounds. Each day is a practice on how to get better and be better we just have to find the ways.
Now enough of this inspirational message...go light a fire and roast some nanners!!!
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